单词 | non-communicating |
释义 | non-communicatingadj. 1. Christian Church. That does not receive, or involve receiving, communion; now usually in non-communicating attendance. Also: refraining from taking communion at the services of an established church (historical). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > exclusion from communion > [adjective] unhouseled1532 unreceiving1566 uncommunicant1600 non-communicating1691 non-communicant1866 1691 R. Baxter Of National Churches xiv. 60 All the Parish Churches are to distinguish Communicating Members from Non-communicating Inhabitants. 1861 J. E. Vaux Presence Whole Congreg. Holy Euch. 5 Such non-communicating attendance was agreeable to..those divines who had the chief share in the construction of the Book of Common Prayer. 1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 II. 440/2 Lee next became incumbent of St. John's, Aberdeen, but introduced non-communicating attendance, then almost unknown in the Anglican church. 1986 New Dict. Liturgy & Worship 283/2 The experience of being excluded from communion fellowship..can be distressing, especially for those who have no tradition of ‘non-communicating attendances’ at the eucharist. 2. Not offering access from one place, area of interest, etc., to another. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective] unspeakinga1382 speechless1390 mutec1400 dumb1406 silenta1425 peaceablec1425 secretc1440 of few wordsa1500 tongue-tied1529 mum1532 closec1540 strait-laced1546 tongue-dumb1556 incommunicable1568 sparing1568 inconversable1577 retentive1599 wordless1604 mumbudget1622 uncommunicable1628 monastica1631 word-bound1644 on (also upon) the reserve1655 strait-mouthed1664 oyster-like1665 incommunicative1670 mumchance1681 speechless1726 taciturnous1727 tongue-tacked1727 monosyllabic1735 silentish1737 untalkative1739 silentious1749 buttoned-up1767 taciturn1771 close as wax1772 untittletattling1779 reticent1825 voiceless1827 say-nothing1838 unremonstrant1841 still1855 unvocal1858 inexpansive186. short-tongued1864 non-communicating1865 tight-lipped1876 unworded1886 chup1896 tongue-bound1906 shut-mouthed1936 zip-lipped1943 shtum1958 1865 Spectator 23 Dec. 1431/2 If the ship is built of non-communicating cells, one cell may fill and all the others remain..water-tight. 1894 Philos. Rev. 3 61 A real metaphysical dualism would cleave the universe in two, leaving two absolutely non-communicating worlds. 1917 A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God iii. 57 It is impossible to treat the world of religious belief and the world of fact..as if they were two non-communicating spheres. 1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. xlix. 1132/1 The disease is termed noncommunicating..because the connection between the ventricular and subarachnoid spaces has been reduced or obliterated. 2000 S. Connor Dumbstruck viii. 206 The economy of the body practised by Mangogul's ring makes the body into an assemblage of non-communicating parts. 3. Not able or willing to communicate verbally, etc., with others. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [adjective] > speaking > not speaking unspeakinga1382 non-speaking1850 non-communicating1960 1960 K. Amis New Maps of Hell (1961) i. 20 Some excellent stories have been written about non-communicating aliens, from The War of the Worlds onwards. 1972 Where May–June 158/2 The parent who protested that her LEA was sending her non-communicating child 200 miles away from home and so she would not be able to visit, when the child could not write or use a phone, had a real case. 1991 D. Donald Stud. in Ezra Pound (BNC) 263 The circumstance of the two writers being noncommunicating neighbours in Rapallo is too piquant not to be instructive. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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